4/11/2022 COVID Update: The State of Maine no longer requires masking or proof of vaccination to attend any public events, but individual venues are free to do so. For the latest information, visit the Center for Disease Control and Prevention or the State of Maine’s COVID site.

Crazy About Tiffany’s

Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, ME

Crazy About Tiffany’s peels back the velvet curtain and steps into the dream-catching world of Tiffany & Co. with unprecedented access and intrigue. From past to present, behind the scenes and in the spotlight, this film captures how a small but uncompromising New York jeweler has woven itself into the fabric of the world. Whether it’s […]

$12

Machine Learning and the Economics of Crime

Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Professor Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago, will discuss the opportunities and challenges of using machine learning tools to help address what we call prediction policy problems. We show that the use of algorithmic predictions of risk to inform release decisions create the opportunity to simultaneously reduce crime, reduce jail populations, and reduce racial disparities within the […]

Free

Battle of the Badges

Alfond Youth & Community Center 126 North Street, Waterville, ME

Please mark your calendars for Thursday, March 3, when the Waterville Police Department will play the Waterville Fire Department in the annual “Battle of the Badges” basketball game. This is always a fun event! Tickets are just $4 for teens, 'tweens, and adults and free for children under 10. Tickets can be purchased at the South […]

Seeing and Believing

Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Through the ages the invention of new optical devices has shaped human perceptions of reality and redefined the physical as well as metaphysical boundaries of the world in which we live. Ori Gersht will contextualize his own practice in relation to technology, history, and art history, weaving between the personal and the general. He will […]

Free

Portraits of our Immigrant Mainers

Holocaust Human Rights Center, University of Maine at Augusta 46 University Drive, Augusta, ME

Immigration to Maine has been part of the American narrative for past few centuries. America, as a nation of immigrants, has historically, with a few exceptions, welcomed the world’s persecuted by offering them safety and a chance to start a new life. Maine’s recent immigrants, most of them refugees fleeing wars, religious and political persecution, […]

$10

Paint Nite

Winslow Congregational Church 12 Lithgow Street, Winslow, ME

Raise your glass to a NEW kind of night out! Paint Nite® invites you to create your own unique piece of art, guided by a professional artist and party host. You'll spend two hours painting, laughing, and flexing your creative muscles. There's no experience necessary and we'll provide all the supplies, so you don't have […]

$45
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Hitchcock/Truffaut

Railroad Square Cinema Schupf Art Center, 93 Main St, Waterville, ME

In 1962 the master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and a young French New Wave upstart François Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting — used to produce the mythical book Hitchcock/Truffaut — this film illustrates the greatest […]

$8

Community Day at the Colby College Museum of Art

Colby College Museum of Art 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Join us for our spring community day with tours of the Robert Adams: Turning Back exhibition. Art workshops and refreshments will be provided. Begun in response to the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Turning Back, an exhibition of 164 photographs by acclaimed photographer Robert Adams, will be on display at the Colby Museum […]

Free

Where Do Fairies Go When It Snows?

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

Join Maine Author Liza Gardner Walsh and Maine Illustrator Hazel Mitchell for a special event featuring their newest book, Where Do Fairies Go When It Snows? This is an all ages event, featuring the author and illlustrator reading from and talking about their book. There will be a fairy-related art activity as well! Copies of the book […]

Free

Manon Lescaut

Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United States

The Metropolitan Opera stage ignites when soprano Kristine Opolais and tenor Jonas Kaufmann join forces in Puccini’s obsessive love story. Opolais sings the title role of the country girl who transforms herself into a Parisian temptress, while Kaufmann is the dashing student who desperately woos her. Director Richard Eyre places the action in occupied France […]

$15

From Russia with Love

Lorimer Chapel, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

With Janna Hymes, guest conductor, the Colby  Symphony Orchestra will perform three staples of uniquely Russian classical music: from Mikhail Glinka, the early 19th-century father of the Russian orchestral style, his famous and rousing opera overture Ruslan and Lyudmilla; from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the late-19th-century romantic and master melodist, his Symphony No. 2, The Little Russian; and from […]

Free

Lady of Camellias

Waterville Opera House 1 Common Street, Waterville, ME, United States

Music: Frédéric Chopin Choreography: John Neumeier A young bourgeois, Armand Duval, falls madly in love with Marguerite Gautier, a gorgeous courtesan celebrated by the Parisian high society. Despite her infidelity, Armand will do all he can to win the beautiful woman’s heart and convince her to leave her indulgent life. The Bolshoi Ballet breathes new […]

$13

National Alliance on Mental Illness Family-to-Family Education Program

St. Mark's Episcopal Church 60 Eustis Parkway, Waterville, ME

“Family-to-Family” is a free, evidence-based, 12-week educational course for family members and friends of people living with mental illness. The course covers basic information about mental illnesses, such as mood disorders (bipolar disorder and major depression), panic disorder, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, PTSD, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other major mental illnesses. Additional topics include coping skills, such […]

Free

Snow Pond Arts Academy Open House

Please join Snow Pond Arts Academy, Maine’s first public performing arts charter high school, for an open house and information session in Alumni Hall. Snow Pond Arts Academy is tuition free and open to all Maine students entering the 9th or 10th grade in the fall of 2016. Open House Dates: Thursday, February 25, at […]

Free

Out of Line: Drawing Democracy in an Election Year

Room 122, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Dan Wasserman will show and discuss his cartoons from the current and past election campaigns. He will be joined by his images of all your favorite political characters, from Bernie and Hillary, to Jeb! and the Donald. Dan will discuss the role of satire in a democracy, his sources for cartoon ideas, conflicts with editors […]

Free

Job Fair

Alfond Fitness Center at KVCC's Hinckley campus 15 Stanley Road, Hinckley, ME

More than 50 Employers Hiring at Skowhegan Area Job Fair. For more info see: Maine Career Center

Free

Confronting Our Incarceration Epidemic: Race, Mercy, and A Failed Concept of Justice

Room 122, Diamond Bldg., Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Reginald Dwayne Betts will graduate from Yale Law School in May. This is a far cry away from May of 1997, when a sixteen-year-old Dwayne was sentenced to nine years in prison for carjacking. He knows the criminal justice system from both ends of the spectrum and describes his chosen field as “the business of […]

Free

Bastards of the Reagan Era

Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Author and poet Reginald Dwayne Betts will read from his latest book, Bastards of the Reagan Era, which examines the war on drugs while challenging popular conceptions about its ending and its impact on the black community. Currently a student at Yale Law School, Betts once served nine years in prison for carjacking. A Q&A […]

Free

Networking Power of Relational Capital

Summit Room, Spann Student Commons, Thomas College 180 West River Road, Waterville, ME

Networking and more importantly building relational capital is not about shaking more hands or collecting more business cards; it’s about developing relationships that make others want to help you and your business. Jason Buchannan of Colonial Danforth Consulting will teach you how to maximize your networking and get the most out of chamber events and […]

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Essentials of College Planning

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

This interactive workshop touches on the four steps in the college process: admissions, financial aid, career and study skills. Held on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month, each session covers the same information; one may attend more than one. Register for a workshop online or by calling 1-800-281-3703.

Free

Your Government, Your Neighborhood

Waterville Public Library 73 Elm Street, Waterville, ME

The staff of Senator Angus S. King, Jr. will hold constituent hours to hear your concerns. For more information, call  1-800-432-1599. Location: Fireplace Room, 1st Floor, Waterville Public Library.

Meet the Reps

These events have been formed to enhance communication and relationships between business leaders and their local, state, and federal elected officials. Complimentary hors d'oeuvres, beer, and wine provided. This event will be held at KVCC, Hinckley Campus, at the new agricultural building. Use the Green Road entrance.

Save A Seat Kickoff Reception

Waterville Senior High School 1 Brooklyn Avenue, Waterville, ME

The reception will take place in the cafeteria and auditorium. Every year, Waterville High School students participate in some of the best band, chorus, drama, and strings productions in Central Maine. At the heart of these critical academic endeavors is the auditorium. But it isn't just for theater or music; nearly every student at WSHS […]

Free
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